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5 RETIREMENT CHALLENGES YOU COULD FACE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM plan can give you confidence about your long-term The Great British Retirement Survey from interactive investor found 45% of people yet to finances, even if you decide to take a flexible income. retire view this as a time for financial freedom. Being affected by stock market volatility: If you While you may dream about giving up work, reaching your retirement goals requires careful planning. Retirees need to consider these 5 challenges to create a secure future. Managing multiple pensions: 66% of people yet to retire have multiple pensions. Worryingly, 6% don’t know how many pensions they have. It is important to keep track of your pensions so you don’t “lose” them and consolidating your pensions can make retirement planning simpler. Deciding how to access your pension: Accessing your pension is complicated. Previous generations would have had a final salary pension or purchased an annuity to deliver a reliable income for the rest of their life. This changed in 2015. You can still purchase an annuity, but you can also take a flexible income through drawdown or withdraw lump sums if you have a defined contribution (DC) pension. Greater flexibility means you need to manage your pensions better. Just 27% of retirees work with a financial planner. Running out of money: Retirement can last for decades, so you need to ensure your finances deliver the income you need. 41% of workers worry about running out of money in retirement, but a financial T. 01273 774855 E. advice@pembrokefs.co.uk W. www.pembrokefinancial.co.uk

access your pension through drawdown, your savings will usually remain invested, but your pension will remain exposed to market volatility. After the sharp market dip at the start of the pandemic, almost half of workers and retirees listed market falls in their top-three financial concerns. Having a cash buffer in retirement can help reduce the impact of market volatility. The rising cost of living: 42% of workers say inflation is their biggest concern. Inflation in the 12 months to September 2021 was 3.1%. The Bank of England has said it could reach 4% in the coming months. This means day-to-day and luxury costs are likely to rise. Over a retirement that could span decades, inflation can have a significant impact.

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Welcome to the January 2022 Edition Hello, Welcome to the January edition of The Village Living Magazine. Happy New Year to all our readers. Thank you for your support and readership for the past year. To all our advertisers big thanks for being part of the magazine! Please continue to write or email us about any local events or activities or charity events you may be running or would like to promote locally.

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Mary Berry’s Raspberry And Apple Muffins Method 1. Preheat the oven to 200°C (180°C fan / gas

Introduction We are lucky to live in a consumer and retail world

in a small pan over a low heat until it melts, then set aside to cool.

where fruit and vegetables of every description are available to us all year round, no matter what season we are in.

2. Tip the ﬂour, baking powder, ground almonds, cinnamon and sugar into a large bowl and stir

Top Tip Stir fruit through only three or four times, so it retains its consistency and doesn’t disintegrate. In the case of the raspberries, stir only once.

Ingredients

4. Meanwhile, make the glaze:

• 85g (3oz) butter • 250g (9oz) self-raising ﬂour • 1 tsp baking powder • 45g (1½ oz) ground almonds • 1½ tsp ground cinnamon • 115g (4oz) caster sugar • 2 large eggs • 250g (9oz) plain, full-fat yogurt • 1 tbsp full-fat or semiskimmed milk • 175g (6oz) fresh raspberries • 1 eating apple, such as Cox’s, about 150g (5½ oz), peeled and chopped into 1cm (½ in) pieces

• In order to make a light

warm the sugar and orange juice in a small pan over a low heat, just until the sugar has

For the glaze • 2 tbsp caster sugar • 1 tbsp orange juice

mixture, stir the wet ingredients into the dry ones quickly, gently, and brieﬂy. Stop stirring as

dissolved, then increase the heat and let the mixture bubble for about 30secs so it turns a

soon as they are combined. The mixture should feel light and soft. Don’t over-mix, as this will result in a tough consistency.

bit syrupy – not too long, or it will get too sticky.

That means the old rules about using summer fruits in summer months have changed somewhat; so to celebrate this I’d like to bring out a traditionally seasonal recipe – raspberry and apple muffins – in these wintry times where we would, in the past, have had rather flatter, more rustic flavours. This bake is easy to do, really delicious, and is certain to put a smile on the faces of old and young alike.

Top Tip

mark 6). Line each hollow of the mufﬁn tin with a paper mufﬁn case. Warm the butter

to combine. In a medium bowl, beat the eggs and stir in the yogurt, milk and cooled melted butter. Stir this mixture into the flour mixture, then add the raspberries and apple and stir briefly. 3. Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases. Bake for about 25 minutes or until well risen and firm to the touch.

5. Remove the mufﬁns from the

oven. Leave them in their tin for 1-2mins, then transfer them to a wire rack. While they are still warm, brush the top of each mufﬁn with the glaze. Leave to cool.

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Colour for Impact A happy New Year to you all. It may be grey outside but I thought, instead of writing about low light photography I would brighten the mood with saturated colour. I will admit that the best time of year for capturing images such as the ones that appear on this page would be the Summer months that offer strong sunlight to bring colours alive. However, even some winter days are bright enough even though the days may be short. Many images that rely on saturated colour for their impact are cropped in tightly to focus purely on the colour rather than expand the full scene but that doesn’t always have to be the case. Look for single dominant colours, contrasting or complementary colours or for even more impact, clashing colours. Repeating colours in the same frame can also work well. The main skill here is not just to ‘look ‘ but to ’see’. In photography, ‘seeing’ is the ability which is most likely to improve your photographs. Anyone can take a photo, it’s a mechanical process where you point the camera and press the shutter button but the art is in the ‘seeing’ and the appreciation of what may interest a viewer for whatever reason. Tastes vary, of course, but if you can please yourself first then you are likely to find others that also find merit in your pictures.

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JEFF STELLING • JEFF STELLING • JEFF STELLING • JEFF STELLING • JEFF STELLING •

Good Sport Jeﬀ Stelling, and the Saturday afternoon ritual that will soon be coming to an end. Hartlepool-born Soccer Saturday presenter Jeff Stelling is arguably the face of Sky Sports. A powder keg of football knowledge in an era where big money dominates the face of the sport, his grounded approach means Saturday afternoons just wouldn’t be the same without him. And yet that’s something we’ll have to get used to at the end of this season after the 66-year-old announced his three-decadelong relationship with the broadcaster was coming to an end. From his early days attending Hartlepool’s Rift House Primary School and West Hartlepool Grammar School for Boys, Robert Jeffrey Stelling’s main interests were always football and journalism. Little has changed over the years, except he now conveys his passion for ‘the Pools’ (Hartlepool United) to a considerably wider audience.

“My first big break came not long after receiving a set of GCSE results which, by my own admission, were indifferent, to say the least,” Jeff begins. “I was offered two journalist posts – one at the Hartlepool Mail and another at the Sunderland Echo. Well, suffice to say, for the dedicated Hartlepool United supporter, there was only one choice, and this was the perfect start to working life. “There was and still is a great atmosphere in regional press and, of course, I was able to develop my writing style and land qualifications. I also picked up shorthand – not that I ever need it nowadays! To write stories, amongst other things, about Hartlepool United, and get paid for it, certainly wasn’t a bad job for a council house kid from the town who lived and dreamt the club.” Wind forward to 2021, and Jeff is of course best known

for presenting Gillette Soccer Saturday on Sky Sports – a role he has held for over 25 years. The show has seen him work alongside football legends such as Rodney Marsh, George Best, Matt Le Tissier, Paul Merson and Charlie Nicholas, and while his cohorts have been replaced over the years, Stelling’s raw enthusiasm for the game remains, even if his role at the six-hour weekend marathon is coming to an end. “I love Soccer Saturday as much now as I did in that ﬁrst year. I work with great people and it’s lots of fun,” he smiles. “The football we cover is about giving all levels the coverage they deserve. There is so much about our football pyramid that remains utterly unique, and British football is truly the best in the world. “It will be a shame to go, but we all need to move on eventually.”

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The Steyning Railway Line The House of Commons approved the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway’s proposal for a Shoreham to Guildford line on the 12th of July 1858. There were to be stations at Bramber, Steyning, Henfield, Partridge Green, West Grinstead and Southwater, and in addition, Christ’s Hospital, Slinfold, Rudgewick, Baynards, Cranleigh and Bramley & Wonersh. The station at Christ’s Hospital would provide the line with connections to Horsham, Portsmouth and London. The first station to be opened was Partridge Green on the 1st of July 1861 and it was the terminus for the line from Shoreham until the entire length of the railway was opened on the 16th of September 1861. On the 16th of October 1861 a daily service between Brighton and Horsham consisted of four stopping trains and one express. The line was used more frequently for freight with trains travelling to the cement works at Upper Beeding and the brickworks at Southwater. Agricultural and fisheries produce was transported from the regions farms and Shoreham harbour. Steyning’s large weekly market was soon relocated from the High Street to a field adjacent to the railway station. Passenger services included Partridge Green to Portsmouth and Brighton to Crystal Palace via Hove. The line became known as route 25 in the ‘Handbook For Travellers Sussex 1877’ which made the pretty villages along the line popular with tourists. Such became the popularity of the line that a second track was laid alongside the first in 1878, so trains could come and go, passing each other. When rail companies were merged in 1923 the line fell under the control of Southern Railway in accordance with the newly passed Railways Act. A seaside break to Brighton attracted passengers from Wolverhampton, Banbury, Oxford and Reading, via Guildford and Horsham. Football specials were laid on when Brighton and Hove 10

Albion were playing at home. The line was also used daily by the pupils of the various schools in the region. In 1948 after nationalisation and the creation of British Rail, the way passenger numbers were counted was changed. Under the old system rail companies split the money from a passenger’s ticket in relation to the distance travelled on the line a company operated. The ticket stub collected by onboard train staff recorded passenger numbers. Under the new system the nationalised British Rail required each station to keep accounts of tickets sold for intended journeys and collected at a station for completed journeys. However the BR accounting system meant passengers were not recorded using any particular line if they purchased their tickets from stations on a connecting line. A ticket purchased in a station elsewhere, for example at Shoreham-by-Sea would be recorded by a BR accountant as a passenger using direct (Brighton Line) trains only. The passenger was not registered to have connected to and travelled on the Steyning Line. By the 1960s a hundred and twenty thousand passengers were statistically recorded as using the Steyning railway line annually. However it’s not known how many passengers there actually were, arriving by connecting services. In 1961, Steyning Grammar School organised an exhibition in the waiting room at Steyning

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station that celebrated the line’s 100th anniversary. Both the station and signal box were decorated in bunting to mark the occasion and trains carried special headboards. In 1963, 12,000 passengers a week were using the line. However as most had purchased tickets elsewhere, only the approximate 5,000 who had purchased a ticket

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from a station on the line were statistically recorded as passengers. In 1966, after flawed passenger surveys based on the erroneous BR accounting system, the Steyning railway line was closed in the government cuts recommended by Doctor Richard Beeching. The result was disastrous. Around ten thousand schoolchildren were left stranded without transport to their classes, as the surveys had been carried out during school holidays. These pupils had not been recorded as passengers on the line. Replacement bus services were put in place immediately, but these became stuck in the increased traffic caused by rail freight also having to switch to road haulage. Successive governments drew up plans to restore the line, but the same governments also pushed through road bypass schemes (Steyning) and construction of new housing estates (Partridge Green and Henfield). The estate at Henfield was built where the train station used to be and appropriately enough has a road called Beechings. Judy Upton Sources: Lost Railways of Sussex By Leslie Oppitz Wikipedia Handbook For Travellers Sussex 1877

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ROPETACKLE CINEMA January 2022 ROPETACKLE CINEMA presents a MATINEE FILM NOMADLAND Another chance to see this outstanding film after a sell-out in 2021! A woman in her sixties, recently widowed and out of work, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a modern-day nomad. Frances McDormand gives a powerful performance. Cert 12A, duration 107 mins. Tuesday 11th January, 2.00 pm. Tickets available from Box Office or on-line, £5. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.

ROPETACKLE CINEMA presents a RELAXED AND FRIENDLY FILM open to all SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN Presented in relaxed and friendly conditions suitable for all, especially people with any form of memory loss. Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds star in one of the most successful musicals ever filmed. Memorable songs, lavish routines - not to be missed. Cert U, duration 103 mins. Monday 17th January, 2.00 pm. Tickets available from Box Office or on-line, £5. Carers free/ refreshments included See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements. ROPETACKLE CINEMA presents a MATINEE FILM A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) is a beloved TV personality. Vogel, an investigative journalist who finds it hard to believe that anyone can have such a good nature, is interviewing him to write his profile. But Rogers’ empathy, kindness and decency soon chip away at Vogel’s jaded outlook on life. A powerfully affecting message about acceptance and understanding. Cert PG, duration 109 mins. Tuesday 25th January, 2.00 pm. Tickets available from Box Office or on-line, £5. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements. ROPETACKLE CINEMA presents MY FIRST CINEMA ZOG AND THE FLYING DOCTORS Meet the flying doctors – Princess Pearl and Sir Gadabout with their trusty air ambulance, Zog the Dragon - as they tend a sunburnt mermaid, 12

a distressed unicorn and a sneezy lion. Fabulous sequel by Julia Donaldson, designed to entertain and delight your 3-5-year olds. Cert U, duration 25 mins. Animation. Friday 28th January, 11.00 am. £4.00 child & adult pair, £3 per additional child or adult, under 18 months old free - tickets from Box Office or online. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements. ROPETACKLE CINEMA presents A SUNDAY SPECIAL A LOWLAND CINDERELLA 1921 British silent romance directed by Sidney Morgan and starring his daughter Joan. Filmed at Progress Films’ Shoreham Beach Studio, the film was restored and shown in 1995 with Joan Morgan in attendance. Local musician Richard Durrant was commissioned in 1995 to compose the film score which will accompany this screening. Cert U, duration 58 mins. Sunday 13th February, 3.00 pm. Tickets available from Box Office or on-line, £5. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements. ROPETACKLE CINEMA presents a MATINEE FILM CRUELLA Estella is a renegade schoolgirl who lands in London, orphaned and alone. She meets a pair of pickpockets and together they build a life for themselves on the streets. Her ambition soon shifts to high fashion when she befriends fashion legend Baroness Von Hellman and embraces her wicked side to become revenge-bent Cruella. Cert 12A, duration 129 mins. Tuesday 15th February, 2.00 pm. Tickets available from Box Office or on-line, £5. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.

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Storrington film nights Storrington Film Night is organised by the Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District. The next film on Wednesday January 12th, will be “The Courier”, a true-life spy thriller, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

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The showing commences at 7.30pm, at Sullington Hall, Thakeham Road, RH20 3PP. All Government Covid guidance will be Observed.

The February film, on Wednesday 9th, will be “No Time to Die” starring Daniel Craig. The latest James Bond thriller.

Tickets are £5, and are available from the Card Shop in Storrington. Any unsold tickets will available on the door, on the night. There is a Bar and a Raffle during the interval. Anyone requiring transport should contact Roger Jamieson 01798 813956 For further information please contact Ken Collins 01903 740745.

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